Hraschina meteorite
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Hraschina is the official name of an iron meteorite that fell in 1751 near the village of Hrašćina in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia. This meteorite is important because it was the first fall of an iron me
Drawing of the main mass
Etched slice with Widmanstätten patterns, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Drawing by M. W. Haidinger depicts the fall of the meteorite based on eyewitness accounts.
Sample at the Natural History Museum of London, 9.8 grams (0.35 oz)
William Thomson was an English mineralogist, who used the name Guglielmo Thomson in Italy in later life. He died in Palermo at the age of 46 years.
Hraschina meteorite
…In 1808 Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten discovered the Widmanstätten patterns by heating a slab of this meteorite. "Though another scientist, G. Thomson, had also discovered the texture, Widmanstätten's work was recognized by Carl von Schreibers (then Director of the Vienna Natural History Cabinet) and…
A Widmanstätten pattern appears when certain types of iron meteorite are etched with nitric acid